DR. SERINE WARWAR, PH.D., C.PSYCH.

DIRECTOR OF TRAINING AND EDUCATION; DIRECTOR OF CLIENT SERVICES,  CENTRE FOR PSYCHOLOGY AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH

DIRECTOR, GREENBERG INSTITUTE OF EMOTION FOCUSED THERAPY

DIRECTOR, EFT CLINIC, YORK UNIVERSITY

(She/Her)

Dr. Serine Warwar is a registered psychologist in the areas of Clinical, Counselling, and Rehabilitation Psychology. She is the Founder and Director of the Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health and the Greenberg Institute for Emotion-Focused Therapy. She is also the Director of the York University Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic in Toronto. Her interest in founding the Centre for Psychology and Emotional Health was to create a centre for excellence for training, education, clinical practice, and research in psychology and emotional health with a community of therapists, supervisors and educations who are interested in ongoing learning and evolution.

Dr. Warwar is experienced in working with a wide variety of issues with individuals and couples. Her approach is empathic, compassionate, collaborative and evidence-based. She helps people access and build on their strengths, develop resiliency, and increase emotional intelligence. Her therapeutic style is compassionate and empathic, to help clients tap into their strengths and develop their internal resources. She finds great beauty and joy in the work that she does.

Dr. Warwar is passionate about training and provides EFT supervision, and consultation to graduate students and therapists.  She conducts international trainings, workshops and advanced classes in Emotion-Focused Therapy. She has been a therapist and researcher for several EFT randomized control trials, for the treatment of depression, and emotional injuries in individuals and couples. She co-developed an EFT psychotherapy treatment and research program to help couples and individuals resolve emotional injuries. In addition, she has conducted process-outcome research that has improved our understanding of emotional processing in EFT. She was trained in EFT by Dr. Leslie Greenberg, a world-renowned clinician and researcher, who co-developed emotion-focused therapy for individuals and couples.

Dr. Warwar has published in the areas of: emotional processing; emotion regulation, homework and experiential teaching; suicide and borderline personality disorder; and resolving emotional injuries and forgiveness in individuals and couples. She has also developed EFT mapping resources for therapists in both individual and couple therapy.

Dr. Warwar is a member of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, the Ontario Psychological Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, the International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy, the Society for Psychotherapy Research, and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.

Please note that our associates work with many presenting issues, some of which are not listed in this biography. Please speak to our intake team at 647-492-3539 for more information.